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The Online Music Battle: Pandora vs Spotify

You are a toe-tapping, online multi-tasker with a need for some good tunes. You spend much of our time online socialising, learning, working and playing. But with so many new… Read more »

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Buying Refurbished vs New Cell Phones

Depending on the kind of relationship you share with the technology you use, the notion of buying a refurbished cell phone over a new cell phone can either sidle up… Read more »

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Solve for X: Google Takes on Problems of the World with Radical Thinking

‘Don’t be Evil.’ That’s the motto Google claims to live by. And while many may not agree with its diverse business approaches, the fact remains that all its inventions have… Read more »

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We the People and the Emergence of Social Enterprises

The intense public anger against SOPA and PIPA last week and how it browbeat a determined government to shelve it for the time being is an eye opener about the… Read more »

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In Defence of Freedom of the Net

On January 18 2012, when the world tried to log into its favourite online encyclopaedia, they saw a black screen with the site’s logo and a message: Imagine a world without… Read more »

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SOPA Vote Put Off for Now, but what Happens the Day Atlas Really Shrugs

In my high school days, I read a book called Atlas Shrugged. Ayn Rand’s bestseller, which, for some time, made me a rebel without a cause. Just like many others…. Read more »

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SOPA and PIPA: An Attempted Colonization of the Internet

Some 500 years ago, education was considered a luxury and was controlled by a few elite groups, who held their grip over the expensive enterprise of handwritten manuscript production and… Read more »

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Netizens of the World Unite, You Have Nothing to Lose but Your Voice

The three mantras of the Great Bolshevik Revolution in Russia were “Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood”. Beautiful words which perhaps encapsulates everything that’s good about the human race. Since then, we have… Read more »

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Of Android and Social Good: Why Gosling Quit Oracle to Join Google

It is a known fact that the heart of Android is Dalvic Virtual Machine or DVM. Now, there is a story about James Gosling, the co-founder of Sun Microsystems and… Read more »

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Android Money is Not for Google Only

Literally it means “a robot having a human flesh-like body and appearing like a homo-sapiens”. And actually it means an operating system whose rate of adoption has been at least… Read more »